Comments on: The perils of estimation http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/ embracing uncertainty Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Liz Keogh's blog » The Real Cost of Change http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-10064 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:27:09 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-10064 [...] isn’t helped by common practices of estimation and the associated promises, which often lead to that pressure building up in the first place. Rather than making these [...]

]]> By: Is estimation waste? « Quality Software Development with Ease http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-9604 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:48:30 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-9604 [...] Customer buy-in: You need to find a customer that is able and willing to make business decisions independently from the cost of the wanted MMF. From my experience with Scrum, it is hard enough to convince customers that they don’t need a detailed project plan with a big design up front. How can you justify abandoning release and sprint planning (and sprints for that matter) all together? Here Arlo draws from his experience by using the Naked Planning process with his team. In his experience, the ‘Disneyland wait time’ (the time for the 7th item on the queue to go into production) is usually never longer than 90 days. This means the customer can plan with the seven most valuable MMFs within 3 months. Further reading on estimation: The perils of estimation (Dan North) [...]

]]> By: Chester http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-9600 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:11:49 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-9600 This really is Awesome! Thanks a ton.

]]> By: Estimating in the agile world! « Thomas's Blog http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-9484 Wed, 04 May 2011 22:56:22 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-9484 [...] Estimating in the agile world! May 4, 2011 tdittmer Leave a comment Go to comments I’ve read this article by Dan North – the perils of estimation [...]

]]> By: Vision ownership « Software Engineering Slave http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-8111 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:03:21 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-8111 [...] the morale? quoting Dan North’s Perils of estimation: The business started out by defining success as solving the problem, but now we have redefined [...]

]]> By: Dan North http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-8107 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:43:24 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-8107 Hi Gedicht.

Sorry for the delay getting back to you. Of course you are welcome to translate anything you like from my site, as long as you credit me as the source.

]]> By: Gedicht http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-8104 Wed, 19 May 2010 21:02:01 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-8104 Hello from Germany! May i quote a post a translated part of your blog with a link to you? I’ve tried to contact you for the topic The perils of estimation « DanNorth.net, but i got no answer, please reply when you have a moment, thanks, Gedicht

]]> By: 84n » Blog Archive http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-8015 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:57:50 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-8015 [...] am still trying to resolve the difference between the customer’s business model and Agile. As Dan North writes: “The trouble is most businesses still use top-down, budget-driven governance models [...]

]]> By: bork http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-8014 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:46:33 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-8014 The extra word ‘deliberate’. As opposed to the extra song deliberate? Or any other sort of deliberate? Why add the extra word ‘word’?

]]> By: Estimation is Fractal « Brain Snack http://dannorth.net/2009/07/01/the-perils-of-estimation/#comment-8013 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:12:53 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=117#comment-8013 [...] rounding errors and the fear factors that we multiply into fine grained estimates.” — Dan North ▶ No Responses /* 0) { jQuery('#comments').show('', change_location()); [...]

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